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Unlike some personality systems where someone originates the theory and every subsequent writer has to build on that theory, and attempts to totally re-engineer fundamental claims are viewed negatively (e.g. Carl Jung's work being the basis of MBTI theory) the...

17 Questions What’s your biggest fear?  What’s your biggest desire? What are you ‘’the best’’ at? How do you see yourself right now? How do you see yourself 5 years from now? How do you express yourself? How do you feel about those near you (family, f...

If you have read the previous pages in this wiki you should now have a basic grasp of the five traits and some of their facets. But how do you actually apply them to a real world situation? How would you calculate the big 5 scores for yourself or someone else?...

  Modern Man lives his life in sleep [. . .] and in sleep he dies.    — George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. To begin one's journey through the Enneagram of Personality is to understand that a person doesn't know who they are, and what their true motivations are...

Introverted Feeling (Fi) is: A Subjective, Rational, Feeling cognitive function. Introverted Feeling seeks to judge the value of objects based on subjective factors, while completely suppressing the influence of the object. That means assigning value to obje...

Is fed from subjective and unconscious roots—archetypes. Depends upon the abstract idea as the decisive factor, and values facts chiefly as illustrative proofs of the idea. Relies on the thinker's powers of observation and appreciation and use of the inner...

Superior Function Extraverted Sensing (Se) is: An objective, irrational, sensing cognitive function. The perception of the object's immediate concrete qualities, removed from the influence of the subject; thus perceiving and highlighting every concrete expe...

Superior Function Extroverted Intuition (Ne) is: An Objective, Irrational, Intuitive cognitive function. Ne doesn't perceive what the object's concrete qualities are, but instead, what the object's inherent abstract implications are; focusing on the potenti...

Superior Function   Is fed from objective data—facts and borrowed ideas. Depends upon the facts of experience and regards the abstract idea as unsubstantial and of negligible importance. Relies on facts outside of the thinker, which are more decisive tha...

Superior Function   Extroverted Feeling (Fe) is: A Rational, Objective, Feeling cognitive function. Extraverted Feeling seeks to judge the value of objects based on objective factors, while completely suppressing the subject. That means assigning value to ...

Superior Attitude 1. Complaisance 2. Trusting 3. Warm 4. Friendly 5. Enthusiastic 6. Optimistic 7. Erratic 8. Impulsive 9. Willing to reveal oneself 10. Extravagant 11. Flexible mimicry 12. A good mixer...

Thinking and feeling are rational functions in so far as they are decisively influenced by the motive of reflection. They attain their fullest significance when in fullest possible accord with the laws of reason. The irrational functions, on the contrary, ar...

Tests It is a popular assertion on PDB that Four Letter tests are much less reliable than alternative methods of deducing one's Four Letter type. Is there a solid basis to this claim or is it merely an unexamined communal belief? A kind of "received wisdom"? ...

17 Questions What’s your biggest fear? Driving on the highway I know it sounds wild, but I think it comes from a lack of control and trust how can all the cars be in the right spot at all times to avoid wrecks and traffic jams.  What’s your biggest desire? "...

The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) was developed by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae from the 1970s through to the 2000s. This is a version of the big 5 which subdivides each trait into six facets. This has become one of the most popular and influent...

Characterological Structure   Passion: Anger Resentment at failure to meet their perfectionistic standards, vehement "righteous indignation", largely unexpressed hatefulness. Standing against reality.   Fixation: Perfectionism The compensation for an i...

Characterological Structure Fixation: MelancholyNever happy with the present, always looking toward a happy future. Trap: AuthenticityFor this person, the really real mate will always be just around the comer of the next hour or day, or year. With such a m...